China's Daily Life (25 images)

A Chinese employee works on an inspection line at the Beijing Huiyuan Beverage & Fruit Group Corporation plant on December 11, 2007. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt signed an agreement today with China to strengthen food, feed and drug safety, which would give U.S. inspectors greater access to Chinese factories and should stop tainted goods leaving China. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

Workers haul bricks to a construction site under massive high-voltage pylons running into downtown Beijing, China April 1, 2007. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

Chinese tourists walk past the north rostrum leading to Tiananmen Square and late Chinese helmsman Mao Zedong's mausoleum (background) as National Day (October 1) celebrations continue in Beijing, China on October 5, 2007. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

A man sells portable seats as holiday crowds head to one of Beijing's main train stations ahead of the coming Chinese Year, on February 2, 2008. Chinese emergency crews struggled on to restore power to many parts of southern China blacked out for a week by heavy snow as forecasters warned of no quick end to the worst winter weather in 50 years. (UPI Photo/Stepehn Shaver)